# Principal Software Development Engineer in Test

OVERVIEW The Principal SDET will be a core member of the eClinical Solutions R&D Team. The Principal SDET will be primarily responsible for architecting and evolving automation frameworks and infrastructure, providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, reviewing automation code quality, driving automation strategy, ensuring scalable and maintainable test automation solutions across the organization, and driving the initiative of migrating existing tests and infrastructure onto a new testing platform. In addition, the Principal SDET will collaborate closely with development, DevOps, architecture, and QA teams to establish best practices for automation, quality engineering, continuous testing, and system reliability. This position will report to the Senior Director, Software Quality Assurance. KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES Designing and implementing AI-assisted workflows, copilots, or intelligent automation features Working with agentic AI patterns (e.g., task orchestration, tool-using agents, workflow automation) Applying prompt engineering, evaluation techniques, and guardrails to ensure reliability and compliance Collaborating with data and platform teams to operationaliz

- **Id**: 3748186
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/eclinical-solutions-principal-software-development-engineer-in-test-3>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-10T12:15:10Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T10:12:47Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 151
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5883
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Clinical Trial Services (CRO), Clinical Trial Software

## Company

- **Id**: 2817
- **Name**: eClinical Solutions
- **Domain**: eclinicalsol.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/eclinical-solutions>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 42
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **.NET** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Bitbucket** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Confluence** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Playwright** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Shift-Left Security** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 151

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T14:15:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 9
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.334
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 151
- **Expected fill days**: 42
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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